Fire Without Phoenix : Poems 1946–1954, by W. H. Oliver

“This volume contains a selection of the verse which W. H. Oliver has published in periodicals since 1946, together with some poems that have not been previously printed. The poems in the first section take up a number of themes and symbols drawn from the natural world and from literature. Those in the second part, mostly written in England, reflect an increasing concern with the inhabited landscape, with people, buildings and cities, and with the writer’s involvement in a social situation and historical process.” —the volume’s blurb, which appeared on the inside front cover


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To Charles Brasch In Praise of Violence Preface An Attitude for a New Zealand Poet Part One Sleep Will Come Singly • A Ballad of Bad Omens • The Tempest • Sea Legend • Fire Without Phoenix • The Time of the Eagle • And I, In Arcady • The Beachcomber • For One Flying • A Handful of Sea Shells • A Figure at the Window • Island Part Two Ceremony of Pain • Dream • Soldier's Pay • Monastic Ruins • A Performance of Death & The Maiden • At a Holy Well • From a Train in the Midlands • In Radcliffe Square, Oxford • The Streets of My City • In the Fields of My Father's Youth • Colophon—The Poet to his Book Source: Oliver, W. H., Fire Without Phoenix: Poems 1946-1954. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1957 Electronic source: Fire Without Phoenix: a TEI-conformant transcription All poems © W. H. Oliver	Fire Without Phoenix Poems 1946–1954, by W. H. Oliver “This volume contains a selection of the verse which W. H. Oliver has published in periodicals since 1946, together with some poems that have not been previously printed. The poems in the first section take up a number of themes and symbols drawn from the natural world and from literature. Those in the second part, mostly written in England, reflect an increasing concern with the inhabited landscape, with people, buildings and cities, and with the writer’s involvement in a social situation and historical process.” —the volume’s blurb, which appeared on the inside front cover